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Since 2010, a deep-sea fish rarely observed by humans has increasingly been appearing along shorelines around the world. According to Japanese folklore, oarfish rise to the surface and beach themselves to warn humans of impending earthquakes.
Occupying ocean depths up to 3,000 feet below the surface, one of the earliest photographs of the reclusive oarfish was taken in 1996 - a dead specimen th…